Immunotherapy before surgery very successful in treating colorectal cancer, trial finds

A short course of immunotherapy was found to be highly effective in a subset of patients with colon cancer. The treatment, which consisted of two cycles of immunotherapy prior to surgery, was effective in almost all patients. In two-thirds of patients, there were no longer any live tumor cells at the time of surgery. The patients’ immune systems had cleaned up the cancer cells.

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